Excerpt from Lamba Folk-Lore One noticeable feature of Lamba stories, and indeed of all Bantu folk-lore is the amount of repetition, as instanced in Story LXVIII, but this repetition has the effect of working up the audience to a pitch of excitement, as they watch for the slightest divergence In the narrative to indicate the turning-point of the story. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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